Welcome to the Columbia University supplemental essay prompts for the 2020-2021 application cycle! Here’s everything you need to know. (You can refer to the Columbia University website if you want to see how exactly they’re presenting their essay prompts for this year.) Please list the following (150 words or fewer
Welcome to the Yale University supplemental essay prompts for the 2020-2021 application cycle! Here’s everything you need to know. (You can refer to the Yale University website if you want to see how exactly they’re presenting their essay prompts for this year.) Students at Yale have plenty of time to
Welcome to the Dartmouth College supplemental essay prompts for the 2020-2021 application cycle! Here’s everything you need to know. (You can refer to the Dartmouth College website if you want to see how exactly they’re presenting their essay prompts for this year.) Dartmouth’s writing supplement requires that applicants write brief
Supplemental essays are personal statements. They need to be about you, tell a compelling story, and so on. I know, I know—you’ve already written a personal statement, and now you’re being asked to do so again, over and over. It should go without saying that you can’t reiterate anything you’ve
Welcome to the supplemental essays for the University of Chicago! UChicago is known for having some of the most creative essay questions of any college, but it’s easy to misinterpret them as casual opportunities to write about the first thing you think of. You’ll need to have a discerning eye
As you probably already know, the point of your college application is to give admissions committees a solid sense of who you are. You’ve written a highly personal college essay, and probably some supplementals on your intellectual and extracurricular activities and your leadership experience. Maybe on your intended major and
How do you make an admissions officer believe you? This, in my opinion, is the central challenge of college applications. You probably believe you’re smart enough, hard-working enough, and talented enough to get into the schools you’re applying to, and your job is to convince the application reader that you
Once you have an idea for your common application essay, also known as your personal statement (see my article here on coming up with a strong idea if you don’t yet), and you’ve mustered the courage to write up a first draft (see this piece on writing a first draft),
After coming up with a topic (see my post here on coming up with one if you don’t yet), putting words on a page is an intimidating step. Students with primarily academic writing experience sometimes default to the standard boring introduction, structured body paragraphs, and summary conclusion of an English
College applications have various important components, but your grades, scores, and teacher recommendations are usually nearly already set in stone by the time you begin writing your essays. The 650-word personal statement in the common application (a similar essay of 500-550 words is included in the coalition application) is uniquely
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